When the Game Arrived, I Was the Only Player

(Apocalypse, road trip, adventure. Updated nightly at midnight.) Bai Shan is taking a break from school and living at home, where she spends all day immersed in a game called Tomorrow's Ruler. Global evolution, random natural disasters, and strange creatures running rampant. With its exquisitely realistic graphics and vast, uncanny world, the game has Bai Shan completely hooked. In the game, she can build her own RV to fight disasters and monsters. She can also collect gear, from melee and firearms to occult objects, and explore an open world teeming with monsters. On top of that, there's a main storyline that gradually unravels the mysteries of the apocalypse. It's thrilling and exciting! Strangely, though the game is so well made, she's never found anyone else online who plays it. Could she really be the only person in the whole world playing Tomorrow's Ruler? Then one day, a global alert sounded, strange mutations erupted everywhere, and the game descended into reality Bai Shan was sitting inside the RV that had appeared out of nowhere when she finally found fellow players: all eight billion human players of Tomorrow's Ruler! And with them came her nearly max-level game account, Tyrant! * Competition on the global leaderboard is so fierce that players ascend and fall every day, but Tyrant always holds the number one spot. Once, Tyrant wiped out the entire player leaderboard in a single day, completely reshaping the world order. Another time, Tyrant defeated a dragon monster threatening a million people, unlocked an achievement, and won humanity more time to live. On the player forum, some people guess Tyrant is an official game account and can't possibly belong to a real player. Others think Tyrant is a super-player created with the full resources of a major nation, a beacon of hope for humanity. The wilder rumors claim Tyrant is an ancient god of Earth... But every player agrees on one thing: beneath Tyrant, everyone is equal. All the speculation about Tyrant's identity comes to an end one ordinary afternoon, when Bai Shan uses a name-change card Global Player Leaderboard No. 1: Bai Shan “My name is Bai Shan. Shan means kind.” Reader's Guide: The heroine isn't a lone wolf and has companions. She's not actually very kind, and her golden finger is pretty powerful. Theme: Treat others with kindness.